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*Wed., Oct. 2
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Pendleton Hall West 212, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Jeffrey Royal (East Carolina University)
"Naval Warfare in the 3rd C BCE: Warships, Rams, and Tactics"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies. Dr. Royal holds the 2013 McCann Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology, named in honor of Wellesley alumna Anna Marguerite McCann Taggart. For parking information, please see http://web.wellesley.edu/map/
Mon., Oct. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS (Center for Government and International Studies) 1730 Cambridge Street, S-010 Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University Standing Committee on Archaeology: Fall lecture and reception
Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Former President of the German Archaeological Institute)
"Burial Rites and the Representation of Power: New Insights from Monumental Kurgans of the Scythians in the Eurasian Steppe"
http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb.pag…
The lecture will be followed by a reception in CGIS South Concourse
Thurs., Oct. 10
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, New England Ancient History Colloquium (NEAHC), 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg, MA 01420
Andrew Johnston (Yale University)
"Local Cult and Local Identity in Roman Gaul: an Adventure in Microhistory"
John Bodel (Brown University), Commentator
For more information and registration, contact Allen Ward: allen.m.ward(a)att.net
Wed., Oct. 16
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, downstairs auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Andrea Berlin (Boston University)
"The Real World of the Maccabees"
Free and open to the public. Reception open to all from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. after the lecture, also in Lown 2.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Program in the History of Ideas
For more information about the lecture, visit our website: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/classics/news/index.html
For questions, contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallis(a)brandeis.edu) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu).
Sat., Oct. 19
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Haldeman Center, Room 041, Hanover NH 03755
Conference: "Mirage/Time: Philology and Post/Humanism"
A full day conference directed by Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature). Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dean of Faculty, Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Classics.
conference program:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/mirageprogram.pdf
Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center 917, Amherst, MA 01003
Lucilius Colloquium
The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the theme "Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts," Friday, October 25, 2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), "Colloquial Registers and Generic Stylization in Lucilius"; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), "Lucilius and the poetarum seniorum turba"; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), "Notes on Meter and Language in Lucilius"; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), "Lucilius' Books."
The full conference program can be viewed at http://umass.academia.edu/BrianWBreed/Events. A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an additional cost. To register or with any questions, please contact the organizers: Brian Breed (bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu) and Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu).
Mon., Oct. 28
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stephen Scully (Boston University)
Aeschylus' Oresteia in Light of Hesiod’s Theogony
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
*Fri., Nov. 1
8:45 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel Center, Gymnasium, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA 02138
Inaugural Conference of the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past
Speakers: Kyle Harper (Classics, University of Oklahoma); Johannes Krause (Institute of Scientific Archaeology, University Tübingen); Daniel E. Lieberman (Human and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Michael McCormick (History, Harvard); Ian Morris (Classics and History, Stanford University); David Reich (Genetics, Harvard Medical School); Pardis Sabeti (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard, and Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard); Noreen Tuross (Human and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard).
Sponsors: Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Department of the Classics, Standing Committee on Archaeology. More information: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/shp/blog/announcement-inaugural-conference-h….
Thurs., Nov. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool)
The Arshama Archive
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
*Fri., Nov. 8, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 9, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Relics, Lives, and Beneficial Tales in Byzantium and Beyond: a conference in honor of John Duffy"
Co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections.
Thurs., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
**Fri., Nov. 22
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London)
"Legal Cultures in Justinianic Constantinople"
Loeb Lecture
*Thurs., Dec. 5
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture: New Takes on the Ancient and Byzantine Worlds
Gudrun Bühl (Curator and Museum Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection); Susan B. Matheson (Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery); and Joseph A. Greene (Assistant Director, Harvard Semitic Museum). Respondent: Laura Nasrallah (Harvard Divinity School).
The Harvard Art Museums are not alone in renewing their permanent exhibition galleries. This evening brings together representatives of three university museums to talk about recent or planned reinstallations of galleries dedicated to the ancient and Byzantine worlds. Their presentations will provide a glimpse of the factors that influence how museums reinvent themselves and will highlight different ways of making objects from the past speak to the present. A faculty response and a panel discussion will follow.
Free admission. Reception to follow lecture; complimentary parking for lecture at the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/new-takes-ancient-and-byzantine-w…
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Tues., Sept. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)
"Translations from Greek into Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition"
**Tues., Sept. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology, Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Peter Rhodes (Durham University)
"Directions in the Study of Athenian Democracy"
A lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series at Boston University. Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this lecture or on the Study Group, please visit our website: http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth-in-th…
Tues., Sept. 24
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents' Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
Tessa Rajak (University of Reading)
"Josephus: Everybody's Historian"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
*Wed., Sept. 25
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Gregory Clark (The University of the South)
"Beyond Use: A Digital Tool for the Analysis of Late Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours"
An abstract is available at the Medieval Studies website: http://medieval.fas.harvard.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Art and Architecture
Wed., Sept. 25
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 310, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Meineck (New York University)
Neuroscience and Greek Tragedy
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
Mon., Oct. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS (Center for Government and International Studies) 1730 Cambridge Street, S-010 Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University Standing Committee on Archaeology: Fall lecture and reception
Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Former President of the German Archaeological Institute)
"Burial Rites and the Representation of Power: New Insights from Monumental Kurgans of the Scythians in the Eurasian Steppe"
http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb.pag…
The lecture will be followed by a reception in CGIS South Concourse
*Thurs., Oct. 10
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, New England Ancient History Colloquium (NEAHC), 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg, MA 01420
Andrew Johnston (Yale University)
"Local Cult and Local Identity in Roman Gaul: an Adventure in Microhistory"
John Bodel (Brown University), Commentator
For more information and registration, contact Allen Ward: allen.m.ward(a)att.net<mailto:allen.m.ward@att.net>
*Wed., Oct. 16
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Lown 2, downstairs auditorium, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Andrea Berlin (Boston University)
"The Real World of the Maccabees"
Free and open to the public. Reception open to all from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. after the lecture, also in Lown 2.
Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Program in the History of Ideas
For more information about the lecture, visit our website: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/classics/news/index.html
For questions, contact Heidi McAllister (hmcallis(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:hmcallis@brandeis.edu>) or Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (aoko(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:aoko@brandeis.edu>).
Sat., Oct. 19
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Haldeman Center, Room 041, Hanover NH 03755
Conference: "Mirage/Time: Philology and Post/Humanism"
A full day conference directed by Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature). Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dean of Faculty, Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Classics.
conference program:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/mirageprogram.pdf<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/mirageprogram.pdf>
**Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Campus Center 917, Amherst, MA 01003
Lucilius Colloquium
The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the theme "Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts," Friday, October 25, 2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), "Colloquial Registers and Generic Stylization in Lucilius"; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), "Lucilius and the poetarum seniorum turba"; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), "Notes on Meter and Language in Lucilius"; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), "Lucilius' Books."
The full conference program can be viewed at http://umass.academia.edu/BrianWBreed/Events.
A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an additional cost.
To register or with any questions, please contact the organizers: Brian Breed (bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@classics.umass.edu>) and Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu<mailto:rwallace@classics.umass.edu>).
Mon., Oct. 28
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stephen Scully (Boston University)
Aeschylus' Oresteia in Light of Hesiod’s Theogony
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
Thurs., Nov. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool)
The Arshama Archive
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
Thurs., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
Fri., Nov. 22
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London)
Loeb Lecture
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*Thurs., Sept. 19
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania)
"Aischrology in Old Comedy and the Question of 'Ritual Obscenity'"
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
*Thurs., Sept. 19
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School) and John Herrmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"More Lucky Wearers: The Magic of Portable Inscriptions"
*Tues., Sept. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)
"Translations from Greek into Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition"
*Tues., Sept. 24
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
School of Theology Room 409, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Peter Rhodes (Durham University)
"Directions in the Study of Athenian Democracy"
A lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World series at Boston University. Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classical Studies.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this lecture or on the Study Group, please visit our website: http://www.bu.edu/classics/about/the-study-group-on-religion-and-myth-in-th…
*Tues., Sept. 24
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents' Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
Tessa Rajak (University of Reading)
"Josephus: Everybody's Historian"
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
*Wed., Sept. 25
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Emerson Hall, Room 310, Cambridge, MA 02138
Peter Meineck (New York University)
Neuroscience and Greek Tragedy
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
*Mon., Oct. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS (Center for Government and International Studies) 1730 Cambridge Street, S-010 Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University Standing Committee on Archaeology: Fall lecture and reception
Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Former President of the German Archaeological Institute)
"Burial Rites and the Representation of Power: New Insights from Monumental Kurgans of the Scythians in the Eurasian Steppe"
http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb.pag…
The lecture will be followed by a reception in CGIS South Concourse
*Sat., Oct. 19
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Haldeman Center, Room 041, Hanover NH 03755
Conference: "Mirage/Time: Philology and Post/Humanism"
A full day conference directed by Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature). Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dean of Faculty, Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Classics.
conference program:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/docs/mirageprogram.pdf
*Fri., Oct. 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Student Union Ballroom, Amherst, MA 01003
Lucilius Colloquium
The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the theme "Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts," Friday, October 25, 2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), "Colloquial Registers and Generic Stylization in Lucilius"; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), "Lucilius and the poetarum seniorum turba"; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), "Notes on Meter and Language in Lucilius"; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), "Lucilius' Books."
The full conference program can be viewed at http://umass.academia.edu/BrianWBreed/Events.
A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available for an additional cost.
To register or with any questions, please contact the organizers: Brian Breed (bbreed(a)classics.umass.edu) and Rex Wallace (rwallace(a)classics.umass.edu).
*Mon., Oct. 28
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Stephen Scully (Boston University)
Aeschylus' Oresteia in Light of Hesiod’s Theogony
Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar
*Thurs., Nov. 7
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool)
The Arshama Archive
Sponsored by the "Discovery of the Classical Worlds" GSAS workshop.
*Thurs., Nov. 14
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Alan Nussbaum (Cornell University)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
*Fri., Nov. 22
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, University of London)
Title TBA
Loeb Lecture
